Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney will meet with small business owners at an event in Aurora on Monday, his campaign announced this afternoon.

The meeting at the Brewery Bar starts at 4:30 p.m. Afterward, Romney will appear at a fundraiser at the Cherry Hills home of Bruce and Debbie Payne.

This is Romney’s first visit to Colorado since declaring his 2012 candidacy earlier this month in New Hampshire.

Bruce Payne is the president, chief financial officer and co-founder of Laramie Energy II – a Denver-based company that finds and develops natural gas in the Rocky Mountains – and a former managing director of Chase Manhattan Bank in London.

1. Why do you support big businesses like health insurers, hospital companies and big pharamas as well as big health care unions over small employers who will be destroyed by ObamneyCare?

2. If you think it’s ok for states to mandate that individuals buy health insurance, do you also think it’s ok for the government to mandate that we buy ethanol, energy efficient light bulbs, electric and hybrid cars, and other products and services that political interest groups pay politicians to force us to buy?

3. Why do you buy Al Gore’s global warming alarmism? Is it because Iowa farmers buy it because they want to sell corn to ethanol producers and they want the government to force us to buy gas/ethanol, which cuts our milelage by 20%? You’re supposed to be a sharp analyst. So why do you buy the work of discredited climate academics and politically-motivated UN commissions?

4. You claim that your business experience has prepared you for the presidency. But so far you’re a failed politician who makes dumb jokes about being unemployed and who has been unable to convince anyone that you believe anything. Why do you want to be president other than you’d like a place in history?

I know. The guests will be too polite to ask hard questions. And that’s why Obama will be re-elected.

W’s legacy is Obama. You can’t do worse than that, but Ethano and Obamney Romney sure is trying.

To deny global climate change is like denying gravity exists. Oh, but it’s only a theory! Moronic. And as for mandating health insurance: you are required to have car insurance. What’s more important? Your car or your health? Your mortgage holder requires you to have home insurance? Again, what’s going to cost more? Replacing your fire damaged house or a heart transplant?

Romney???? Geeesshhhhh, you people have lost your minds. The guy instituted State run Health Care in his own State, and, tanked the economy so bad he didn’t even run for re-election as he knew he had no shot….and now you want to give him the Presidency? Sometimes a pretty face and nice head of hair can get you everything in life.

Joey Bunch has been a reporter for 28 years, including the last 12 at The Denver Post. For various newspapers he has covered the environment, water issues, politics, civil rights, sports and the casino industry.